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The Common Council held a combined work session and regular meeting on Tuesday, October 13, 2026, at 6:00 p.m. in the Common Council Chamber. The work session featured budget presentations from the Police Department and the City Clerk’s Office, followed by the council meeting which included a Domestic Violence Awareness Month proclamation, unanimous approval of 11 resolutions, department head reports, and public comments addressing traffic safety at the intersection of Maple and Hudson. The meeting concluded with a motion to enter executive session.
All resolutions and the local law were approved unanimously:
We have an agenda with a couple of items regarding budget and uh police department and then liaison reports, the executive session for uh matters concerning the medical, financial, credit, or employment history of a particular person, persons or corporation, or matters leading to the appointment, employment, promotion, demotion, discipline, suspension, dismissal, or removal of a particular person, persons, or corporations. So I'll turn it over to our city manager. Good evening, Mayor and Council. Good evening. So we have uh just a few more presentations left for you for the budget, but uh we're gonna start tonight with um a couple of uh housekeeping items, and so Chief Renwick is going to talk to us about the contract for the police department locker room and um a request for bids or an award of a contract and a request for bids for another contract. Good evening, Mayor McKenzie, Council. Good evening. Good evening. Uh as Matt said, the first item that I have for you tonight is to award the uh plumbing contractor bid, which we put out to bid a couple weeks ago. Um so the uh the lowest bid that came in was by Castle Plumbing at a cost of 25,875 dollars. They were one of three companies who came back with a bid. Um we did solicit with five total companies, which uh does satisfy the city's procurement policy. So with your permission, I'd like to present a resolution authorizing uh castle plumbing, authorizing the city manager to enter into a contract with Castle Plumbing for the uh plumbing work for the new police department locker room. Council, any questions? Oh glad to see it's moving forward. Thank you. Thank you. Um so another item in the same vein. Um I'm requesting that we go out to bid on the framing work that needs to be done in the locker room project for the police department. Same project as the plumbing work. Um we're gonna bid it uh in the same way that we did with the plumbing work. And um, just to give you a little further context, the reason that we're breaking out each of these bids as opposed to hiring just a uh an independent contractor to handle everything, is that we only have partial funding for the project now. So we decided it makes most sense um break out each project separately with different contractors, get as much done as we can while we're still seeking uh the rest of the funding for the rest of the project. So uh with your permission tonight, I would like to solicit uh bids for the framing work of the project. Questions? Chief, I assume you got to get the framing done before you're gonna do the plumbing. Well, we would like to do the plumbing first because the plumbing it has to go in, they have to tear up uh the floor. Um so DPW is gonna help with some of that work in order to help mitigate cost um so we can kind of you know spread the money as far as we can. Great, yep. Anyone else? All right, thank you, Chief. You're welcome. Long time coming. Glad this project's getting started. Well, we're we're moving full full seam speed ahead on this one. Thank you. Okay, and these uh so these resolutions have been included in tonight's uh resolutions. Next up, Tony is going to get us started on the rest of the presentations, and the police department is the first of the three of two items tonight. Shelling is not no, I got it. Yeah, two minutes. Yes.